National Gallery

Like most of Mr. Wiseman's work, the movie is at once specific and general, fascinating in its pinpoint detail and transporting in its cosmic reach.
-- Manohla Dargis, New York Times

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National Gallery

Frederick Wiseman’s NATIONAL GALLERY takes the audience behind the scenes of a London institution, on a journey to the heart of a museum inhabited by masterpieces of Western art from the Middle Ages to the 19th Century. NATIONAL GALLERY is the portrait of a place, its way of working and relations with the world, its staff and public, and its paintings. In a perpetual and dizzying game of mirrors, film watches painting watches film.

“This is one of Wiseman’s richest and most thought-provoking films, and easily one of his best.” –Budd Wilkins, Slant Magazine

“…It’s beautifully organised, and there’s no way you could possibly watch it without learning all kinds of stuff.” –Tim Robey, The Telegraph
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Genre
Documentary
Runtime
181
Language
English
Director
Frederick Wiseman
FEATURED REVIEW
Nick Schager, Village Voice

Like so much of his celebrated work, documentarian Frederick Wiseman's National Gallery is long, leisurely paced, wide-ranging, meticulously crafted, intellectually intricate, and touched with profundity. Demanding intense engagement with its images, sounds, and atmosphere, Wiseman's film concerns ...

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